Awards: Alan Holly’s Coda nominated for Cartoon d’Or

Alan Holly’s Irish animated short film Coda has been nominated for the prestigious Cartoon d’Or award.

The Cartoon d’Or is the award for best European animated short bestowed at the Cartoon Forum. The six nominees were chosen from a shortlist of 31 films which won an award at one of the Cartoon Media partner festivals in the past year.

Codatells the story of a lost soul who stumbles drunkenly through the city. In a park, death finds him and shows him many things. Produced by Ciaran Deeney for Dublin-based animation studio And Maps and Plans, Codafeatures the voices of Brian Gleeson (Standby, The Stag) and Orla Fitzgerald (The Wind that Shakes the Barley, The Guarantee) in addition to music composed by Shane Holly.

Coda was shortlisted for an Academy Award®-nomination earlier this year. Ithas also achieved success on the festival circuit, winning awards such as Best Animated Short Film at SXSW and Most Creative Short at last year’s Edinburgh Short Film Festival.